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U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Esan Simon, the Coast Guard Academy's Medical Director, poses for a portrait on the walkway to Jacob's Rock, the sailing center on campus, Nov. 11, 2021. Simon recently placed 15th on the Connecticut NAACP's "100 Most Influential Blacks in Connecticut list." (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Matthew Abban)

Dec. 6, 2021

Steadfast: How one Coast Guard captain navigates the uncharted seas of life

Expertise is a product of experience. It is a characteristic that is wholly meritocratic, with the amount of hours put toward refining one’s skill determining how far that individual will get in their profession. For U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) Officer Capt. Esan Simon, the Medical Director of the Coast Guard Academy, his constant desire to

Dec. 3, 2021

The Long Blue Line: The attack on Pearl Harbor—“a date that will live in infamy”—80 years ago

In his war declaration speech, President Franklin Roosevelt labeled Dec. 7, 1941, as a “date that will live in infamy.” On that day, without forewarning or a declaration of war, forces of Imperial Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In the battle, Coast Guard units served alongside the Navy firing anti-aircraft barrages

The Coast Guard and partner agencies are searching for a person in the water after he was last seen entering the water in the Inner Harbor of Baltimore. The Baltimore County Fire Department received the initial notification from the Canopy by Hilton Baltimore Harbor Point hotel security that they witnessed the person enter the water. (U.S. Coast Guard curtesy photo/Released)

Dec. 2, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard, partner agencies searching for person in the water in Baltimore Harbor and more. 

Coast Guard, partner agencies suspend search for person in the water in Baltimore Harbor; Bidens visit Coast Guard station, meet virtually with service members around the globe on Thanksgiving; Coast Guard is searching for about 10 missing migrants near Mona Island, Puerto Rico.

Official shield for Coast Guard Base Charleston. (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 26, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Charleston—over 230 years of Coast Guard service and growth in South Carolina!

The City of Charleston, S.C., has been a Coast Guard base of operations for over 230 years and its importance to the service has increased throughout its history.The nation’s first Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, founded the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service in 1790, stationing one of the “first fleet” of 10 cutters, the South Carolina, in

Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton offloads seized contraband

Nov. 24, 2021

Frontline Focus: Coast Guard medevacs passenger from cruise ship 231 miles southeast of Wilmington, N.C., and more

Coast Guard medevacs passenger from cruise ship 231 miles southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina; Coast Guard Cutter Hamilton offloads approximately $504 million in cocaine, marijuana at Port Everglades, Florida; and Coast Guard taps second ship as party of interest in oil spill

Secretaries Cup football game high fives

Nov. 24, 2021

BZ: United States Merchant Marine Academy wins Secretaries Cup, and more

BZ: United States Merchant Marine Academy wins Secretaries Cup, Nominations for 2021 DHS Chief Financial Officer Awards due, MOCTC article appears in Journal of Military Learning, Crew of the Coast Guard Station St. Louis

NIU graduation ceremony

Nov. 24, 2021

Education opportunities for Coast Guard civilian employees

Advanced education opportunities offer civilian employees a chance to enhance contributions to the Coast Guard workforce

Posed official photograph of the Coast Guard commandant, Rear Adm. Frederick Billard (U.S. Coast Guard)

Nov. 19, 2021

The Long Blue Line: Catching the rumrunners—Coast Guard adopts new technology during Prohibition

[Prohibition] was a hard unremitting war with few of the rewards normally accompanying performance of such duty. Yet under the law, the Coast Guard had no alternative but to conduct it with zeal and dedication, utilizing all the resources at its command. The story of the “Noble Experiment” is in large part a Coast Guard story.    Commandant Edwin

Gunner’s mates aboard Coast Guard Cutter Spencer shoot messenger lines to a disabled fishing vessel 100 miles off the coast of New York to bring the vessel in tow. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Katharine Ingham)

Nov. 18, 2021

Frontline Focus: Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Spencer returns home after a 33-day patrol and more. 

Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Spencer returns home after a 33-day patrol; 17 mariners  rescued in two days highlights importance of preparation, partnerships; America's only heavy icebreaker departs Seattle homeport; bound for Antarctica; and Coast Guard, partner agencies investigating cause of Southern California pipeline fracture.

The Coast Guard UAS Team used a drone to take this infrared image of the Chevron oil storage tank that caught fire in Pasadena, Texas, Aug. 18, 2020. It was used to determine if the fire was out or there was a risk of re-flash. The red areas indicate where residual heat in the remaining oil and surrounding steel is most intense. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Chief Petty Officer Cameron Steinmetz and Petty Officer 3rd Class Tim Loveday.

Nov. 15, 2021

Coast Guard drones can see underwater and inside vessels during response to hurricanes and extreme weather events

Unmanned aircraft systems big and serve as a response powerhouse

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